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misperceive

vb. To perceive erroneously.

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misperceive

v. perceive incorrectly

Usage examples of "misperceive".

Sometimes we misperceive and wrongly interpret the situation, causing problems.

Not entirely, it seemed in retrospect, even if Ista had misperceived her recurring clotted tension around the marchess as base envy.

Others ranged from misperceived natural phenomena to well-meaning but "careless" higher life-forms.

Even when the ego seems to be concerned with the present, it is not the present that it sees: It misperceives it completely because it looks at it through the eyes of the past.

Considering how completely I must be misperceiving his words, I was going to need a high-pressure hose and a plumber's drain snake to clean out my ears.